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SHALL  WE  SPEND 
HALF  A 

MILLION  DOLLARS 
ANNUALLY 

TO  INTRODUCE 

THE  YOUNG  MEN’S  CHRISTIAN 
ASSOCIATION 

IN  FOREIGN 
COUNTRIES 

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ARTHUR  RUGH 


FOREIGN  DEPARTMENT 
International  Committee 
124  East  28th  Street,  New  York 


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I- WHY? 

The  North  American  Young  Men’s 
Christian  Associations  and  their  friends 
purpose  to  send  out  and  maintain  in 
certain  foreign  lands  two  hundred  train- 
ed secretaries  at  a cost  of  approximate- 
ly $500,000.  annually.  One  hundred 
and  forty  secretaries  now  at  work  have 
demonstrated  the  value  and  methods  of 
the  Young  Men’s  Christian  Association 
in  seventeen  of  these  nations.  The 
sixty  men  unprovided  for  should  reach 
their  posts  by  the  close  of  1915. 

With  the  work  of  the  Associations  in 
the  United  States  and  Canada  far  from 
finished,  with  leadership  and  money 
needed  here  increasingly,  is  it  wise  and 
right  that  these  men  should  be  sent 
abroad  and  this  heavy  annual  expense 
incurred  ? 

The  real  question  is:  Would  the  As-  The 
sedations  of  North  America  and  their  question 
friends  be  justified  in  refusing  to  an- 
swer the  call  of  missionaries,  of  Chris- 
tian leaders  and  of  statesmen  at  whose 
urgent  request  this  work  abroad  is  being 
done? 

1.  THE  CALL  OF  THE  MISSION- 
ARY FORCES. 

No  secretary  has  been  sent  into  any 
field  until  the  mission  forces  working 
in  that  field  have  unitedly  requested 
that  one  be  sent.  The  Associations 
have  had  to  choose  between  disloyalty 
to  the  expressed  desire  of  the  mission- 
ary leaders  of  the  Church,  and  the 
undertaking  of  this  work. 

This  call  of  the  Church,  furthermore, 
is  not  sporadic  sentiment,  but  is  persis- 
tently repeated  and  emphasized  in  no 
uncertain  terms.  Official  action  such 
as  the  following  has  been  taken  by  the 
united  mission  bodies  of  ev^ery  field  en- 
tered by  the  Association. 

“This  National  Conference  hereby  India 
records  its  hearty  and  thorough  appre- 


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ciation  of  the  work  of  the  Young  Men’s 
Christian  Association  in  India,  and  em- 
phasizes the  strong  claim  which  it  has 
already  established  upon  the  prayers, 
sympathy  and  support  of  the  home 
Churches.” 

China  “The  Young  Men’s  Christian  Asso- 
ciation is  providing  a most  effective 
agency  of  the  Church  and  should  be  ex- 
tended as  opportunity  and  resources 
permit.  Resolved  that  we  recognize  in 
the  students  a field  for  Christian  effort 
of  great  importance,  and  that  inasmuch 
as  we  have  in  the  Young  Men’s  Chris- 
tian Association  an  agency  of  the 
Church  especially  adapted  to  carry  on 
work  among  students,  we  recommend 
an  enlargement  of  its  forces  to  more 
adequately  meet  this  need.”  National 
Missionary  Conference. 

Japan  “This  semi-Centennial  Conference  re- 

cognizes with  deep  gratitude  the  spe- 
cialized service  rendered  by  the  Japan- 
ese Young  Men’s  Christian  Association 
and  urges  these  Associations  to  extend 
their  efforts  especially  among  the  stu- 
dent, the  mercantile  and  the  industrial 
classes.” 

Brazil  “Resolved  to  request  the  Internation- 

al Committee  of  Young  Men’s  Christian 
Associations  of  New  York,  to  send  out 
more  secretaries  for  the  work  among 
Brazilian  young  men.” — General  As- 
sembly of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in 
Brazil,  191O. 

Turkey  “I  have  been  appointed  by  the  Con- 
ference of  the  Turkey  Mission  and  Cili- 
cian  Union  of  Churches,  to  call  your 
attention  to  Aintab  as  a center  of  work 
for  the  Young  Men’s  Christian  Associa- 
tion. We  are  convinced  that  a secretary 
of  American  origin  of  special  training 
is  absolutely  necessary.” 

There  is  only  one  answer  to  be  made 
to  appeals  constantly  coming  like  the 
following: — 


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“The  key  to  the  religious  situation  in 
China  at  present  is  in  the  hands  of  her 
students.  Now  in  Manchuria  there  is 
absolutely  no  organized  effort  to  bring 
Christian  truth  to  bear  on  this  vitally 
important  class  of  young  men.  It  is 
because  of  these  things  that  we  urge  the 
Young  Men’s  Christian  Association  to 
undertake  a task  which,  while  of  the 
first  importance  in  our  eyes,  has  become 
impracticable  for  the  Church.  Is  Man- 
churia to  be  gained  or  lost?  The  ans- 
wer may  depend  upon  the  response  to 
our  present  fervent  appeal.’’ — The  Mis- 
sionaries of  Manchuria. 

Better  evidence  could  hardly  be  fur- 
nished that  the  Mission  Boards  consi- 
der the  Association  not  as  a rival  but 
an  efficient  agent  of  the  Church  than  the 
following  recent  action  of  the  Annual 
Conference  of  Foreign  Mission  Boards 
of  North  America: 

“In  view  of  the  very  large  and  rapid- 
ly increasing  number  of  students  in  the 
government  and  other  non-Christian 
educational  institutions  in  China,  in 
view  of  the  influential  relations  which 
these  students  are  to  sustain  to  the 
leadership  and  character  of  the  new 
China,  in  view  of  the  vital  service  which 
the  Young  Men’s  Christian  Association 
can  render  the  Church  in  reaching  for 
Christ  and  for  the  Church  the  student 
class,  because  of  its  valuable  points  of 
contact  with  these  students,  its  special- 
ized methods  and  agencies,  its  expert 
experience  and  its  interdenominational 
character, 

“Resolved:  That  this  Conference 

recommend  that  the  Mission  Boards 
of  North  America  set  apart  for  a term 
of  years  twenty  men  to  work  with  at 
least  an  equal  number  of  Association 
secretaries  among  the  government  stu- 
dents of  China.” 


JManehuria 


United 

Mission 

Boards 


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Rev.  F.  B. 
Meyer 


Dr. 

J.  Wilbur 
Chapman 


Bishop 

Boutflower 

(Anglican) 


Mr.  J. 
Campbell 
White 


Ex- 

President 

Taft 


2.  THE  CALL  OF  GREAT  CHRIS- 

TIAN LEADERS. 

Certain  men  in  every  age  are  recog- 
nized as  having  a right  to  speak  for  the 
Churchy  and  these  men  have  spoken. 

“For  all  this — the  moral  condition  of 
the  Orient — a well  appointed  Young 
Men’s  Christian  Association  is  the  one 
sufficient  corrective.  If  only  philan- 
thropists, merchant  princes  and  million- 
aires could  realize  the  per  cent  of  result 
which  accrues  from  the  money  invested 
in  the  foreign  work  of  the  Young  Men's 
Christian  Association  they  would  hasten 
to  place  unstinted  capital  at  the  dis- 
posal of  those  who  are  directing  this 
campaign.” 

“In  the  light  of  careful  study,  there- 
fore, I say  no  investment  for  Christ  in 
all  the  world  would  count  for  more 
than  that  which  is  made  in  the  Asso- 
ciation Foreign  Work  and  made  quick- 
ly” 

“The  part  the  Association  is  able  to 
play  as  a central  agency  gives  it,  in 
non-Christian  Japan,  among  so  many 
Christian  forces,  a position  and  many 
opportunities  of  quite  exceptional  inter- 
est and  value.” 

“No  other  two  hundred  living  men 
would  have  a finer  opportunity  than 
these  to  hasten  the  evangelization  of  the 
world.” 

3.  THE  CALL  OF  NATIONAL 

LEADERS  WHO  KNOW  THE 
NEED. 

The  call  of  missionaries  and  Chris- 
tian leaders  takes  an  added  weight  when 
the  work  is  endorsed  by  the  leaders  of 
the  nations. 

“The  Association  supplies  a need 
which  no  Church,  no  institute — nothing 
else  that  I know  of — can  meet.  Espec- 


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ially  is  this  the  case  in  Manila  and 
elsewhere  in  the  tropics  where  young 
men  who  are  far  removed  from  home 
influences  find  in  the  Young  Men’s 
Christian  Association  a helpful  agency 
in  the  struggle  with  temptation.” 

“The  Association  is  indeed  doing 
more  for  the  reunion  of  Christendom 
than  any  other  agency  I have  encoun- 
tered.” The  Commanding  Officer^  Bri- 
tish Army  in  Southern  India. 

“The  Association  has  been  the  cen- 
tre of  the  united  work  of  all  Christian 
Churches  for  many  important  efforts, 
both  social  and  evangelistic.  It  is 
able  to  reach  the  students  in  the  govern- 
ment educational  institutions  and  the 
non-Christian  schools  where  no  other 
Christian  agency  can  gain  access.” — 
President  of  the  Doshisha,  Kyoto, 
Japan. 

“I  scarcely  believe  that  any  man  who 
placed  one  dollar  in  the  foreign  work 
of  the  Association  would  take  five  dol- 
lars to  it  get  back  again.” 

4.  THE  CALL  OF  LEADERS  OF 
THE  ASSOCIATIONS  O F 
NORTH  AMERICA. 

The  Conference  of  Employed  Of- 
ficers of  the  Young  Men’s  Christian 
Associations  of  North  America,  at 
Omaha,  in  June,  IQOQj  unanimously 
resolved:  “That  the  Conference  ap- 

proves the  program  to  provide  a max- 
imum staff  of  two  hundred  secretaries 
to  extend  the  North  American  Associa- 
tion Movement  to  non-Christian  lands, 
as  the  missionary  and  native  leaders  of 
the  Church  may  request.” 

“The  question  is  not:  Why  should 
the  Associations  of  North  America  carry 
on  the  Foreign  Work?  The  question  is: 
Does  the  call  of  the  Church,  the  recogn- 
ized Christian  leaders,  the  dominant 
statesmen  of  the  world  and  of  the  lead- 


General 

Bond 


President 

Harada 


Hon.  John 

Wana- 

maker 


Employed 

Officers 

Conference 


John  R. 
Mott 


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L.  Wilbur 
Messer 


C.  S. 

Bishop 


Fred  B. 
Smith 


ers  of  the  Association  constitute  a call 
not  from  men  but  from  God  which  we 
would  disobey  at  our  peril?” 

‘‘The  North  American  Young  Men’s 
Christian  Associations  are  obligated  to 
share  their  unparalleled  resources  of 
men,  money  and  methods  by  extending 
their  cooperation  and  support  to  all  men 
of  all  lands.  The  continued  prosperity 
of  our  Association  Brotherhood  is  de- 
pendent on  the  right  investment  of  our 
stewardship  through  sacrificial  service 
in  giving  a whole  Gospel  to  a whole 
world.” 

‘‘The  best  test  of  a Young  Men’s 
Christian  Association  is  not  its  material 
equipment  or  technical  efficiency  but  its 
altruistic  vision.  This  should  express 
itself  in  a concern  for  the  welfare  of 
men  and  boys  in  non-Christian  lands. 
The  best  evidence  of  this  concern  is  a 
liberal  quarterly  remittance  toward  the 
work  in  mission  fields.  The  growth  of 
the  home  work  would  be  mightily 
stimulated  if  every  North  American  As- 
sociation would  adopt  an  agressive 
foreign  work  policy.  As  a matter  of 
self-preservation  it  would  be  worth 
while.” 

‘‘The  sustaining  and  extension  of  the 
foreign  work  is  as  binding  an  obligation 
upon  the  home  Association,  as  opening 
the  front  door  of  the  buildings  each 
morning  at  nine  o’clock. 

‘‘It  ought  to  be  immediately,  heartily, 
generously,  lovingly,  and  prayerfully 
supported.” 


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n_WHERE? 


Secretaries  are  located  as  follows: 

China  

India  and  Ceylon 

South  America 

Japan  

Mexico  

Philippines  

Turkey  and  the  Near  East 

Korea  

West  Indies  


52 

34 

20 

10 

6 

5 

5 

4 

4 


Total  140 


1.  IN  CITIES. 

Obviously  we  can  not  put  enough  Radiating 
men  in  these  lands  to  do  the  Associa-  (.gnters 
tion  work,  but  we  can  place  them  where 
they  can  train  others  to  do  it.  These 
men  have  all  been  loeated  with  great 
care  in  cities,  the  capturing  of  which 
will  mean  the  winning  of  many  other 
cities.  No  city,  however  large,  has 
been  given  a secretary  unless  it  is  so 
situated  that  an  Association  establish- 
ed there  will  multiply  itself  spontaneo- 
usly in  many  other  cities  without  the 
addition  of  more  secretaries.  Had  a 
similar  basis  been  in  operation  when 
the  Association  Movement  was  intro- 
duced in  North  America  the  leaders 
would  have  placed  two  secretaries  each 
in  New  York  City,  Washington,  Pitts- 
burgh, Montreal,  Toronto,  Chicago, 

New  Orleans,  St.  Louis  and  San  Fran- 
cisco and  have  told  these  eighteen  men 
to  so  plant  the  work  in  these  cities  that 
it  would  without  further  help  spread 
into  every  city,  town,  college,  country 
district  and  railroad  center  in  North 
America. 

In  these  other  lands  conditions  are 
such  that  this  multiplying  method  can 
be  much  better  used  than  in  North  Am- 
erica. If  there  were  located  in  Albany, 


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as  a state  capital,  Yale  and  West  Point; 
Pittsburgh  with  its  influence  on  indus- 
try; and  Chicago’s  influence  in  railroad 
circles,  Albany  would  then  constitute  a 
typical  radiating  center.  An  Oriental 
provincial  capital  generally  includes  the 
officials,  the  academy  training  the  army, 
the  university  and  normal  schools  train- 
ing the  teachers,  the  commercial  center 
and  naturally  the  railroad  and  indus- 
trial center.  In  such  cities  men  are 
placed  because  from  each  of  these,  hun- 
dreds of  others  cities  will  secure  the 
Association  idea  and  trained  leaders. 

Local  By  such  location  every  secretary  sent 
support  from  America  will  eventually  be  met  by 
scores  of  secretaries  supported  on  the 
field  and  every  dollar  given  will  quickly 
yield  its  many  fold  in  money  given 
bj'^  the  people  in  the  country  where  the 
work  is  done. 

2.  AMONG  STUDENTS. 

Potential  The  largest  student  centers  of  the 
leaders  world  are  not  Oxford,  Harvard,  and  To- 
ronto, but  Calcutta,  Tokyo,  St.  Peters- 
burg and  Buenos  Aires.  The  next 
generation  will  be  led  by  the  students 
as  in  no  previous  day.  Turkey,  China, 
Japan,  India  and  South  America  will 
be  made  whatever  they  are  to  become 
in  the  new  world  by  the  students  of 
these  lands.  A very  large  percentage 
of  them  are  not  Christian.  In  the 
Imperial  University  of  Tokyo,  for 
instance,  there  are  in  round  numbers 
five  thousand  students.  A religious  cen- 
sus shows:  Agnostics  3000,  Atheists 

1500,  Buddhists  and  Shintoists  450, 
Christians  60.  Mighty  forces  fight 
against  their  moral  life.  Association 
secretaries  investigated  2000  board- 
ing houses  in  one  city  and  found  that 
four  were  safe  places  for  the  moral 
life  of  a young  man.  There  are  5000 
students  in  the  University  of  Buenos 


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Aires  with  less  than  ten  percent  who 
have  any  interest  in  personal  religion. 

Into  this  field  of  the  controling  temp-  Joining 
ted  men  of  the  nations  the  Association  Church 
has  been  called  and  has  proved  its  fit- 
ness for  the  task.  Over  two  hundred 
Chinese  students,  most  of  them  from 
prominent  non-Christian  families  in 
China,  have  been  baptized  in  connec- 
tion with  the  work  among  Chinese  stu- 
dents in  Tokyo.  They  have  returned 
into  every  Province  in  China  and  are 
strongly  influencing  the  new  govern- 
ment in  favor  of  Christianity.  During 
Mr.  G.  Sherwood  Eddy’s  recent  visit 
through  the  student  centers  of  China 
more  than  2000  students  took  the  first 
step  into  the  Christian  life.  These  are 
only  beginnings. 

More  than  a score  of  great  student  Leaders 
centers  in  these  foreign  lands  still 
wait  for  their  first  Association  secretary.  Church 
Enough  has  been  done  in  all  of  these 
foreign  lands  to  demonstrate  the  wis- 
dom of  the  Church  in  calling  the  Asso- 
ciation to  work,  as  its  special  agent 
among  the  student  classes.  Service  of 
special  value  has  been  rendered  the 
Church  by  its  work  in  mission  schools 
enlisting  Christian  students  for  the 
ministry.  In  China,  Pastor  Ding  Li  Mei 
travels  tmder  the  direction  of  the  Asso- 
ciation among  the  Christian  schools.  His 
work  has  led  more  than  800  students  to 
pledge  their  lives  to  the  ministry  and  a 
vigorous  Student  Volunteer  Movement 
has  been  organized.  !More  educated 
men  have  been  led  into  the  ministry 
as  a life  work  in  three  years  than  in 
the  first  hundred  years  of  work  in 
China.  India’s  first  native  Bishop  Rev. 

V.  S.  Azariah,  was  consecrated  in  De- 
cember 1912.  For  fifteen  years  he  was 
one  of  the  leading  Association  secreta- 
ries in  India  and  has  repeatedly  said 
that  most  of  his  training  for  leadership 


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in  the  Church  was  received  from  the 
Association. 

There  are  two  men  who  are  recogniz- 
ed as  fitted  to  give  evidence  as  to  the 
wisdom  used  in  locating  this  work  in 
certain  cities  and  student  centers  and 
their  evidence  is  in. 

Traveler  Dr.  Ernest  De  Witt  Burton  of  Chi- 
and  cago  University,  after  a careful  study 
critic  of  the  work  in  Asia  said:  “I  was  im- 

pressed with  the  fact  that  the  Associa- 
tion has  exercised  great  wisdom  in  the 
selection  of  points  at  which  to  work. 
The  Association  has  entered  into  an 
inheritance  of  the  experience  of  other 
missionary  organizations,  and,  as  I 
went  about,  it  seemed  to  me  that  they 
had  learned  the  lessons  which  these  ex- 
periences had  to  teach.” 

A student  xhe  Honorable  C.  T.  Wang,  Vice- 
leader Chairman  of  the  World’s  Student  Chris- 
tian Federation,  is  on  record  as  follows: 
“And  I think  there  is  one  thing  above 
all  other  things,  one  institution  above 
all  other  institutions,  one  Christian 
force  above  all  other  forces,  that  is 
able  to  reach  the  students  as  no  other 
institutions  are  able,  and  that  is  the 
Young  Men’s  Christian  Association. 
This  I say,  not  from  a theoretical,  but 
from  a practical  standpoint.  We  find 
that  at  present  it  is  the  Young  Men’s 
Christian  Association  that  is  able  to 
cope  with  the  student  class.” 


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III-WHEN? 

No  word  or  combination  of  words  in 
the  English  language  will  adequately 
express  the  need  of  entering  all  these 
fields  with  the  full  force  of  men  at  once. 

World  crises^  psychological  moment  the 
break  in  the  game,  imminent  victory 
or  defeat — aU  these  and  more  are  invol- 
ved. The  time  to  act  is; 

1.  WHEN  recent  world  changes 
prepare  the  nations  for  immediate  ac-  ^-orld 
tion.  The  number  of  people  in  the  world  condition 
under  republican  form  of  rule  was  tre- 
bled during  1912.  Every  nation  in 

Asia  except  Afghanistan  and  Siam  has 
adopted  a constitutional  form  of  govern- 
ment within  the  last  twenty  years.  Near- 
ly half  of  the  human  race  within  the 
last  decade  has  been  led  into  entirely 
new  social  and  political  conditions.  The 
leaders  of  all  these  movements  in  all  the 
non-Christian  lands  are  young  men,  the 
legitimate  field  of  the  Association  work. 

2.  WHEN  these  nations  are  in  a Plastic 
period  of  transition,  passing  from  an  nations 
old  order  to  a new.  For  generations 

many  of  them  have  followed  a fixed 
path.  At  this  moment  they  have  turned 
away  from  that  path  and  in  bewildered 
uncertainty  are  waiting  to  be  guided 
along  a line  which  they  will  follow  for 
generations.  Dr.  John  R.  Mott  has 
said:  “We  will  do  more  to  win  China 

in  the  next  five  years  than  we  can  do 
in  the  next  hundred  if  we  fail  in  the 
next  five.” 

3.  WHEN  debasing  selfishness  Xhreaten- 
threatens  us.  Ninety-three  percent  of  jjjg  gelfish- 
the  wealth  of  the  United  States  has  jjggg 

been  created  and  amassed  since  1850. 

This  percentage  is  larger  still  in 
Canada.  The  property  value  of  the 
Associations  in  North  America  increas- 


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Imperative 

orders 


Abundant 

fruit 


Now  if 
ever 


ed  in  19II  approximately  $5,000,000 — 
or  ten  pereent.  Money  spent  on  cur- 
rent expenses  increased  at  about  the 
same  rate.  Only  an  heroic  missionary 
task  will  save  us  now  from  the  sin  of 
selfishness. 

4.  WHEN  the  home  Church  urges 
immediate  action.  When  the  Mission 
Boards  vote  to  set  aside  twenty  of 
their  men  to  help  the  Association  catch 
up  with  its  opportunity,  we  must  believe 
that  this  is  the  time  for  action. 

5.  WHEN  the  work  begins  to  bear 
abundant  fruit.  In  recent  weeks  a 
thousand  proud,  gifted  students  in 
India  have  enrolled  as  enquirers  in  the 
Associations.  In  one  week  in  Canton 
seven  hundred  and  fifty  students  made 
the  first  step  into  the  Christian  life. 
During  last  year  ten  hundred  and  sixty- 
eight  members  of  the  Seoul  Association 
joined  the  Church.  Work  with  such 
results  needs  to  be  done  NOW. 

National  crises  are  impending.  Time 
escapes.  Sin  is  at  work.  The  Associa- 
tions are  able.  The  Church  appeals. 
Under  these  conditions  the  North  Amer- 
ican Associations  will  be  chargeable 
with  guilt  if  they  do  not  have  their  full 
quota  of  two  hundred  men  on  the  field 
not  later  than  1915. 


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HALF  A MILLION 


IV- HOW? 

The  budgets  of  these  secretaries  vary  Budgets 
in  different  countries.  The  principle 
on  which  they  are  paid  is  to  give  them 
just  enough  to  enable  them  to  live  safely 
and  work  efficiently.  The  average  total 
expense  for  an  unmarried  secretary  is 
$1200  per  year;  for  a married  secretary 
$2000  per  year;  corresponding  to  the 
expenditures  of  the  efficient  Mission 
Boards  for  representatives  in  the  same 
cities.  The  total  foreign  budget  for 
1912  was  $354,000 

Secretaries  are  supported  by  Associa-  It  is 
tions,  groups  of  Associations  and  by  being 
individuals.  Sixty  Associations  contri-  done 
bute  annually  amounts  ranging  from 
$1000  to  $16,000  each.  Twenty-six  As- 
sociations contribute  from  $500  to 
$1000  each.  The  increasing  prosperity 
of  North  American  Associations  and  the 
blessings  coming  on  these  Associations 
as  a result  of  their  foreign  work  policy 
justify  both  those  already  supporting 
the  work  and  many  others  in  taking  up 
an  increasingly  aggressive  support  of 
the  work  in  other  lands. 

The  multiplying  power  of  money  Dollar 
given  to  Foreign  Work  is  unusually  for  dollar 
great  because  it  is  a fixed  principle  that 
the  work  shall  from  the  beginning  be 
self-supporting  on  the  field.  All  cur- 
rent expenses,  salaries  of  the  rapidly 
increasing  staff  of  native  secretaries, 
money  to  purchase  land  for  buildings 
and  athletic  fields ; all  these  must  be 
provided  and  are  being  provided  with 
great  sacrificing  unselfishness  by  the 
men  in  the  cities  organized.  The  time 
will  quickly  come  when  every  dollar 
given  in  America  will  be  matched  by 
native  money,  some  thirty  and  some  an 
hundred  fold. 


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SHALL  WE  SPEND 


Demonstration  is  not  lacking  that  in 
any  land  the  people  of  the  country  will 
do  their  share.  Money  and  lives  are 
given.  Last  year  in  Associations  in 
five  different  countries  in  which  there 
where  fifteen  American  secretaries,  bud- 
gets raised  locally  and  native  secretaries 
on  full  time  were: 


city  Budget  raised  Native 

locally  Secretaries 

Buenos  Aires  . .$35,000  7 

Shanghai  44,152  14 

Mexico  City  ...  26,152  4 

Calcutta  29,178  5 

Seoul  29,000  18 


Disobe-  History  has  seldom  recorded  clearer 
dience  evidences  of  Divine  leading  than  these 
costs  by  which  the  Associations  of  North  Am- 
erica have  been  called  of  God  to  plant 
a work  for  young  men  in  other  lands. 
Obedience  to  this  call  is  a rigid  condi- 
tion upon  which  we  may  claim  enough 
of  God’s  power  to  solve  our  own  hard 
tasks.  Disobedience  means  death  not 
only  to  the  souls  of  many  men  in  other 
lands  but  to  the  life  of  the  Spirit  in 
us  and  in  our  Associations. 


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